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[figmentpigment]

Name: Bendy

Date: June 1

Format: yes

[ A series of posts are made, interspersed across a good half hour or so. ]

[text:]
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[text:]
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[text:]
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[audio:]
[ fourteen seconds of silence, interspersed with some rustling ]

[text:]
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[video:]
[ A big, white finger pokes at the camera a couple times. Then it points up at the sky. There's a vague, slightly squeaky noise, a whirl of motion, dirt. The feed cuts out. ]

[text:]
hello!

[video:]
[ More of the finger poking at the camera for a few seconds ]

[text:]
hello! hell

[text:]
hello!

[text:]
hello!

[text:]
bvcdfg

[text:]
its me! hello!

[ Someone is very confused and very excited. ]

Comments

[figmentpigment]

no
you are not henry henry is not here

i said it before when yoru name was connor
your name

not henry

[morbide]

[Henry has a hard time looking at the rest of the messages on this post, but one thing's for certain:]

no way1 i never said that1 i iIM HENRY. Cant this doodad house more than one person in it? you, me, and the rest of these witches and monsters have one of these watches.

unless... connors the ghost.

[figmentpigment]

how many people can be in a doodad? it is very small though! are you crowded. are you all ghosts so there is room


!
i do not like ghosts though i do not want a watch full of ghosts!!!!

henry no do not be a ghost you are not allowed to be that i will be upset!!!

[morbide]

You have no idea just how many. we ghosts are packed in tight, like a tin of mutilated sardines, we are. Its so crowded in here that I feel my eyeballs popping out of their sockets! I think I dislocated a shoulder typing this! oh the agony! its a ghost party!!

[figmentpigment]

parties are a good time that is not a good time! please stop being a ghost fish in the watch of ghost soup please i am sorry i yelled at you do not be mad and also a ghost please

[morbide]

Youre so funny. Of COURSE Im not a ghost. I was only pulling your leg, Bendy.

Im writing on one of these watches, just like you ! neither of us are ghosts! Yay! Im still made of flesh and bone, not ectoplasm and spooky mist. If I were a ghost Id be haunting people in person, not over a silly talking watch. Id like to see the look of terror on my victims face in person, thank you very much.

[figmentpigment]

ohgood i was very worried

is it okay if i am worried about you i have not been able to do that before but i would like to now. i was busy being the one doing all the haunting and terrorizing before! i think i like being alive and normal much much better. i suppose it is all right to trade if that is really what you would like to do

[morbide]

[Before...? When? That's the first area of confusion Henry encounters in this conversation, the second being this comment about "trading" something.]

You want to worry about little old me? Thanks, but theres nothing to worry about. I wouldnt like you to worry about me, besides. Im glad youre alive and normal and like that better

buuuuuuut what are we trading? Im good at abstract thinking, bt Im not sure I follow.

[figmentpigment]

oh i am sorry

i thought maybe you wanted to do all the haunting and scaring people now and seeing them be upset

but that does not seem to be a thing that needs to happen here!
especially since no one is a ghost
so we can both just have a nice time

[morbide]

yeah, Id haunt them and spook them... if I were a ghost. Its funny to watch the color drain from peoples face when theyre terrified! Its not that much different from the way people look when they bleed out, but hey, its a lot more harmless.

But I cant really do anything like that here, much less have an AWESOME time . they took my magic away. ican try to have a nice time, atleast. say, did YOU used to haunt and scare people oor something?

[figmentpigment]

[ Now Bendy's the one starting to have second thoughts. Is this what Henry talks like when he's not scripted? He can't say for sure, but it's definitely not what he would have guessed. And Henry would certainly know about... all that. ]

i think the people do have blood here so they would be very good at that

there is still a lot of magic here it is just a very different kind. maybe less hurting people involved. i am not sure yet i do not think i am a magic haver

i do not really like to think about it very much but it is hard not to!. it was a very long time of doing that you know. i am enjoying being happy and making other people happy much better.

[morbide]

Of course they have blood, silly! I checked already. Id hate to imagine a world where people dont have blood. How disturbing... It would be like opening a present to find a bunch of disappointing nothing! No fun at all.

But hey, I understand wanting to make people happy. I used to do whatever I liked because I didnt have anybody to make happy. but I found out I enjoy making people smile, once people started keeping me around. I dont understand it all that well, but we can both keep doing our best to bring happiness to other people. Yay!

[There can be... other Henrys.]

[figmentpigment]

[ sounds made up and dumb. how would you tell them apart? ridiculous. ]

yes it would be a pretty awful place ha ha

yay

i suspect you must be very good at making people smile when you get the chance.

[morbide]

[By calling their name out in a crowd and summoning all of their attentions, just to make vague eye contact with Just One of them. The rest awkwardly turn away.]

Im amazing at pleasing others. Id say I live to bring smiles to peoples faces, if I didnt already live to slaughter people. Those are either completely conflicting, or just what the doctor ordered.

Who doesnt like to make people smile, anyhow? I suspect... nobody!

[figmentpigment]

[ now there's a mood

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i suppose whoever makes people to do things wants to get in as many things as they can at once
for efficiency of happiness and aslo death also

i do not understand business but I suppose it must be that kind of thing
?

[morbide]

Yeah, I guess. Not much of a business guy myself. I just follow orders and stay alive. Pretty easy, dont you think?

[figmentpigment]

yes it was very simple

but now there is no one giving orders? which is very different from what i am used to
it is scary
but also i think i like it
is that okay?

[morbide]

Liking the freedom to do your own thing? I think thats pretty normal. Probably. Im also not very good at normal stuff, but I think thats okay. Whatever makes you happy is good !

[figmentpigment]

that means very much to me
thank you

[morbide]

No problemo! Dont let it scare you too much. Trust your guts, is what I always say. Even if theyre a mess to spill, at least it feels good do what your intuition says is best.